[Wine] Re: Drive Mapping not sticking...

[theonewho]

When I issued the ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices command I noticed that it was listing drives/partitions that don't exist anymore.  I've changed hard drives and partitions more than a few times since I installed linux and wine.  Should have been obvious that I check that directory for old dosdevices.  Anyway here's the output of the command before I deleted the obsolete entries:


Code:
ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 dlanor78 dlanor78 4096 2008-03-30 00:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 dlanor78 dlanor78 4096 2008-03-30 01:30 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   10 2007-09-29 01:38 c: -> ../drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    5 2007-09-29 01:39 d: -> /home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2007-09-29 01:39 e: -> /media/drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2007-09-29 01:39 f: -> /media/drive_q
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   13 2007-09-29 01:39 g: -> /media/cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   13 2007-09-29 01:39 h: -> /media/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2007-09-29 01:39 i: -> /home/dlanor78
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   15 2008-03-29 19:01 j: -> /media/OldLinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    8 2007-09-29 20:46 j:: -> /dev/sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   13 2008-03-29 19:41 k: -> /media/cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    9 2007-10-01 20:53 k:: -> /dev/scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    9 2007-10-01 20:53 l:: -> /dev/scd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   11 2007-10-15 15:27 m: -> /media/sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   11 2007-10-15 15:27 n: -> /media/sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2007-10-15 15:27 o: -> /media/floppy0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    8 2007-12-20 01:29 p: -> /media/n
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    8 2008-02-01 22:42 q: -> /media/c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   17 2008-02-01 22:42 r: -> /media/Misc Stuff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    1 2007-09-29 01:38 z: -> /




and after cleaning up:


Code:
ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 dlanor78 dlanor78 4096 2008-03-30 01:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 dlanor78 dlanor78 4096 2008-03-30 01:36 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2008-03-30 01:36 a: -> /media/floppy0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   10 2007-09-29 01:38 c: -> ../drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    5 2007-09-29 01:39 d: -> /home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   13 2008-03-30 01:36 e: -> /media/cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    9 2008-03-30 01:35 e:: -> /dev/scd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   13 2008-03-30 01:36 f: -> /media/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   16 2008-03-30 01:36 g: -> /media/New Drive
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   14 2007-09-29 01:39 i: -> /home/dlanor78
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78   15 2008-03-29 19:01 j: -> /media/OldLinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    8 2008-02-01 22:42 q: -> /media/c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dlanor78 dlanor78    1 2007-09-29 01:38 z: -> /




As far as using ntfs-3g, I do a lot of video editing of files that are captured using a hauppauge pvr-150 card.  I do install programs in the fake c: drive, I use the ntfs drive for the mpg files so I can access them with r/w in windows when I need to.  I use Womble's mpeg-vcr in wine to edit the mpg files on the ntfs drive (gopdit and gopchop seem to mess them up somehow) then reboot into windows to author a dvd in tmpgenc dvd author.  Then it's back into linux to shrink the dvd with wine and dvd rebuilder this way I can fit more on a disc.

This probably sounds ridiculous but dvd authoring sucks on linux so far.  There are a few programs getting close to good, but nothing that I've found works like I need it to.

I can't reboot at the moment because I'm in the middle of an important task that can't be interrupted, but I'll do so later and post back if there's further problems.